From Italy

If your holiday in Italy was once again far too short, you like to bring a souvenir home with you. In his concert overture “In the South”, Edward Elgar processed the impressions of his winter stay in Alassio in Liguria in 1903/04. Shortly before his famous “Carmen”, Georges Bizet completed his second symphony based on motifs that he had collected during his stay in Rome several years earlier. On the advice of Johannes Brahms, the 22-year-old Rich...